On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:52:49 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:42 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 16:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > As I said, I'm happy enough with suspend for now. My aim was to
> > > reduce
> > > power consumption at night (this isn't a server that has to be on
> > > all the time).
> >
> > I dont' think computers use that much power (least normal
> > workstations anyway) to bring up or down your utility bill much, so
> > couldn't you just leave it on as is and just shut off your monitor
> > until your ready to use it again?
>
> I used to do that up until about a year ago. Since then I think I have
> noticed a reduced utility bill, but of course that's not really
> evidence as there are other factors, including lower rates because of
> the drop in oil prices. This is an i7 system with an Nvidia card, an
> SSD, a 1TB SATA drive and 16TGB of RAM, so probably above average for
> home workstations in terms of power consumption. The monitor is a 23-
> inch HP LCD.
>
> If there were an easy way to measure it I would :-)
>
> poc
You might have a look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_A_Watt
I have tried them and they work quite well to determine individual
appliance power consumption.